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Google’s Chromebox is a very cool piece of hardware — sort of a reduced-price Mac Mini — but not everyone will want to be limited by its webby Chrome OS environment. We’ll show you how to run a full Ubuntu distro on one, while leaving Chrome OS as a dual-boot option.

Kyle Hovey has decided to build his own 8-bit CPU from scratch, out of breadboard, NVRAM chips, surface-mount transistors, and lots and lots of wire — and he’s blogged his experience, so you can follow along.

If you’re one of those newfangled, noobie console gamers, you can just slot that shiny MW3 disc into your Xbox 360 or PS3 and start shooting hajis — but what if I told you that you could build your own MW3-capable PC for less than the price of a modern console?

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